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YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

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a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party . ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party .

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric.

More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Donald Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric. Nancy Youssef, Gisela Salim-Peyer, and Jonathan Lemire report on what could happen next in Venezuela:

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived in. Then he lawyered up. Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshalled a team of lawyers on his behalf.

I am so sick of hearing this shit
#fuckice #immigration #wrong
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While the eyes of the world are on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank still behave with impunity | Ofer Cassif As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring hollow, says Knesset member Ofer Cassif

There is so much going on behind the scenes with this 😕 #gaza
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

Nothing like the smell of panic 😞
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Could We End Corporate Money In Politics? Backers of a referendum before Montana voters next year believe they’ve found a vulnerability on Citizen United

We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy.

A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the monarchy $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

@profgalloway.com on the power of the Manosphere.

Trump and Republicans spread lies and scapegoat immigrants to distract you from how they are picking your pockets.

Do not be fooled.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

How are hedge fund managers like this any different from thieves? And their corrupt politician friends mobsters? US tax payers are their banks and it's so wrong!! 😡

Trump’s Argentina Bailout Enriches One Well-Connected US Billionaire – Mother Jones share.google/Ada8cpwlgOH9...

3 tracks out this week showed Trump dropping and at his lowest point this year:
Econ/YouGov 39%-57% (-18) down 5 pts from last week
Civiqs 41%-55% (-14) down 2 pts from last week
AP-NORC 39%-60%(-21) down 13 pts from last month

This dictator shit ain't play well with voters.

SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it underwent ‘catastrophic failure’ while on stand

This asshole could literally save millions of people including children from starving to death but instead he's doing this #fuckelon
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If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price Much of the country has little access to local news, with public media filling the void – and serving as a lifeline

If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price

The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the…

In 2021 and 2022, Trump loyalists Ken Cuccinelli and Russell Vought privately urged Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to proclaim their states were being invaded.

Ducey never acted on the invasion theory. Abbott was more receptive.

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Budget deficits U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget bill is likely to bake in outsized deficits for years to come.

🔊 House passes Trump’s 'big, beautiful' bill. Hear how it's expected to deepen America's fiscal hole on the Reuters Econ World podcast reut.rs/3SPdNdu

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

Yet more affirmation that growing old in America is not an option, even if I could afford it 😡 #sicko
#ProfitOverPeople #united
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R.I. Ethics Commission allows Senate leader Ciccone to vote on assault weapons bill as gun dealer - The Boston Globe New Senate Majority Leader Frank A. Ciccone III falls under the “class exception” to the ethics code as one of 99 federal firearms license holders.

The Rhode Island Ethics Commission on Tuesday told new Senate Majority Leader Frank Ciccone III that he may vote on assault-style weapons legislation even though he is a licensed gun dealer.

The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval The long read: People driven from their homes by climate disaster need protection. And ageing nations need them

Excellent article regardless of what your opinions are about climate change. It will force us all to reevaluate what being a citizen of a country versus a citizen of world means in the context of our own survival #safeopenborders

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The bond downgrade specifically mentioned this bill as one of the reasons.

100 men vs. 1 gorilla?

How about the working class against the oligarchy?

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.

This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 86%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

The Trump Effect: Now available in recession flavor.

Booker's TikTok feed

Sen. @booker.senate.gov's speech on the Senate floor, now live for almost 25 hours, has been liked on TikTok a staggering 350 million times www.tiktok.com/@senbooker/l...

Trump's polling has already collapsed It took under 100 days for buyer's remorse to set in.

Trump tank polls

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